Config for nginx work with thumbs

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#Attention!, this scripts needs a modified version of timthumb you'll find in my git account.
#Francisco Aranda, Developer, Software Architect and Enterpreneur, Chile.
#http://farandal.com
#http://www.git.com/farandal

location  ~ /thumb/.*\.(png|jpg)$ {

  #set $domain     yourdomain.com;        # Change this to your site's domain name, you may or not need to uncomment this.
  set $root_fcgi   /home/user/public_html/yourdomain.com/public;  # Change this to the public root folder of your site
  set $root_cache  $root_fcgi/thumb;      # Change this to a folder in which to cache the minified files
  set $thumb_dir   /home/ligasams/public_html/vendor/timthumb-read-only;  # Change this folder to wherever you put or cloned the timthumb repository. it's not necesary that timthumb be in a public access folder, the calls to the script will be managed by nginx

  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param SITE_ROOT $root_fcgi;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $thumb_dir/timthumb.php;
  fastcgi_param PATH_INFO timthumb.php;
  #fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $domain;  # you may or not need to uncomment this.
  fastcgi_param CACHE_DIR $root_cache;

  root $root_cache;

  expires max;

  gzip_static on;   # You will need to have installed Nginx using the --with-http_gzip_static_module flag for this to work
  gzip_http_version 1.1;
  gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
  gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
  gzip_vary on;

  # If there is not already a cached copy, create one, but if the thumb file exists makes a simple request directly to the cached file.

  if (!-f $request_filename) {
        root $root_fcgi;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:49232; #Or whatever port you have configured

  }
 
 #I'd recommend to use cloudfront from now on to serve the static cached thumbnails ;-) 

}